Here's the good news: Fewer teens are smoking cigarettes. Here's the bad news: More of them are smoking pot. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that only 18 percent of teens said they smoked a cigarette in the past 30 days, but 23 percent said they smoked marijuana in the same time frame.

So why are adolescents choosing pot over cigarettes? A study from the University of Michigan found that teens have gotten the message that cigarettes are bad for you, but seem to believe marijuana is less harmful.

Alcohol, however, is still teens' top drug of choice. More than 1 in 3 high school students reported current alcohol use in 2011, and 1 in 5 high school students reported binge drinking, CBS reports. Do you think it's more dangerous for teens to smoke pot? Or cigarettes?

PotleafAccording to Time magazine, "No one has ever died of THC [marijuana] poisoning, mostly because a 160-pound person would have to smoke roughly 900 joints in a sitting to reach a lethal dose."

In 1988, DEA Administrative Judge Francis Young concluded, "In order to induce death, a smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette."

What's sadder is that people are so ignorant of the facts of pot-smoking that they want to keep it illegal. Believe it or not, smoking pot DOES have it's benefits. And those positive attributes outweigh it's negative attributes by far.

If it is so beneficial would you want your 14 year old daughter smoking it. And how do you know that I'm ignorant of "the facts"....maybe you are ignorant of the facts. Clearly that would be true if you think that smoking pot is better than not smoking pot. You would only say that if you were stupid...but as I originally posted...smoking pot makes you stupid.

Ok but it's also a true fact that Alcohol does more damage than pot and if you really stand by not smoking pot is worse than smoking pot, then you'd not drink either. Your facts contain no logic. Now while I wait for your counter argument I will smoke this bowl.

I would not encourage my kids to smoke it, but it would be ten times better than them smoking cigarettes.If I had a teenager and found out s/he was smoking pot, I would suggest they smoke it in moderation and be responsible and focus on school.And when exactly did I say or even imply that smoking pot is better than not smoking it? I think it's personal choice. Smoke if you want to, don't smoke if you don't want to. Simple as that. So I guess I'm not that stupid, though you do seem to assume a lot. Feeling like an ass yet?

That's because I really don't feel like getting into it, I have other things I could be doing and I've got into this discussion plenty of times before.I'd say look it up, but there's a lot of propaganda out there.So instead, I'll just be done discussing this with you, it appears to be going no where.

You don't' need to provide supporting links for things that are obvious. In the courtroom it is called taking "judicial notice". It is a poor and self defeating response to ask for them when the proposed facts are undisputable. If you dispute that a single cigarett is "virtually harmless" then you are the one who should provide the supporting facts. I think the rest of us agree that it is true. If you don't think that a single joint is harmful than tell me if you had to choose one or the other ...either a cigarette or a joint to give to your 14 year old...which one would you choose.

I do understand your point. Still, we are not only talking about a cigarette a day being harmful. Starting a 14 yr old on smoking even one cigarette a day will start him or her on a harmful addictive habit that can end fatally.

Not only is it obvious to anyone who has been around teens who smoke pot...but a report this last week showed that teens who were regular pot smokers damaged the development of their brains so that they were less intelligent as adults. So smoking pot makes you less intelligent when you are stoned and less intelligent when you are not stoned.

I have researched this and its true when smoked pot is harsher on your longs. I think it was one joint = 6 Cigs. A lot of studies are inaccurate because pot smokers often smoke cigarettes on top of pot smoking.

T.H.C. is being found to be a Cancer cell inhibitor, not to be confused with a cure. And pot smoke is more prone to making you cough harder and longer, which forces crap out of your lungs. Also Cigarettes have many many man made chemicals added which turn into many other nasty things when burned.

I don't know how you researched but I've been smoking it for 48 years without any lung or anything else problems. I'm in great health at 69. They salt the earth with uranium in tobacco fields because the ground is spent and little else will make it grow. If they leave the land to regenerate, they have to grow a different crop than tobacco.